Abstract: Tube hydroforming is an attractive manufacturing process in the automotive industry because it has several advantages over alternative methods. In order to determine the reliability of the process, ...

Abstract: The tube-hydroforming process has undergone extremely rapid development. To ensure a reliable hydroforming process at the design stage, applying robust design methodologies becomes crucial to the ...

Abstract: Local deformation due to the interaction of small scale features such as voids or hard particles is expected to have a significant influence on the failure mode of a material. To this end, ...

Abstract: Deformation and fracture behavior of several formable automotive aluminum alloys and steels have been assessed experimentally at room temperature through standard uniaxial tension, plane strain ...